With RailsConf just around the corner this is a PSA for the Bmore On Rails crew and all the effort they are putting forth to make 2010 a RailsConf to remember. From a Yankees/Orioles game to Rides from the airport to Bmore on Ales they've got a program that will interest you.

Corey Donahoe has released Cider. A gem that glues together several current best practices for development in OS X to great effect! You can try it out without fully committing as it sets up your environment in ~/developer

Cowboyd has wrapped V8, the javascript engine in the Google Chrome browser inside a handy ruby gem called TheRubyRacer. Want to pass Ruby objects to javascript and execute them as if they were native JS objects? Go check it out on the githubs!

Several Ruby interpreters have been updated, TextMate gains some IntelliSense, and there's a lot to do in Baltimore on this episode of Ruby5. Not to mention that the May 2010 BugMash is officially in the books!